Thursday's services capped six days of remembrance for Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Following the honors in Washington, it was his wish to be buried in his hometown of Plains, next to his beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter.

In the winter of 1993, specifically February, my husband, Clarence, planned a trip to Florida, Alabama and Texas to visit relatives. Since we did not have a specific date to

Jimmy Carter made a final trip home to Plains, to be buried near the modest house he shared with his wife Rosalynn for more than six decades.

Mattie Wright, a 73-year-old Albany resident, visited Plains Thursday to honor the late president’s push for racial equality — a lesson Jimmy Carter instilled in his son, Chip. Wright attended Georgia Southwestern University with Chip in the early 1970s. He used to talk with Wright and other Black students at the university’s student center.

After this morning's service in Washington D.C., the former president's casket has arrived back home in Plains.

Somber moments in Plains, Georgia Thursday as former President Jimmy Carter’s hearse makes its final journey through his beloved hometown.

5:45 p.m. Jimmy Carter funeral continues in Plains A private funeral service for Jimmy Carter has begun at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, Carter's hometown. Carter's casket will soon be transported to the family home, beside where Rosalynn ...

For what he gave me, he deserves my respect,” said Tiffany Patten. “If he can eradicate guinea worm, I can stand in 30-degree weather (to watch his funeral’s motorcade).”

10:24 a.m.: Grandson Joshua Carter recalled the former president's years of teaching Sunday school at Marantha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. He said that Carter would often share news during his classes, connecting the former president's faith with his desire to help those in need.

Jimmy Carter, the first former American president to live to 100, arrived back in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning before Special Air Mission 39 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland took his casket on its

Former President Jimmy Carter will be laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Georgia on Thursday night. He will be buried next to his wife, Rosalynn Carter, outside the home they lived in for decades.

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.